Join Scott Klein as he welcomes Shaun Tinline-Jones, Senior Program Manager for AzureCat, as they discuss patterns and practices for sharding Azure SQL Database. Scott has been working with Shaun and the AzureCAT team for some time now on a sample library that provides elastic scalability in SQL…

Welcome to the inaugural episode of SQL Unplugged, your avenue for asking question to, and talking with, the three individual who own the relational database at Microsoft; Shawn Bice, Nigel Ellis, and Rohan Kumar. In our very first episode, Shawn and Nigel answer questions and discuss topics around…

Join Scott Klein as he welcomes Sasha Nosov, Principle Program Manager for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in SQL Database, as they discuss Active Geo-replication in SQL Database, a mechanism to provide database redundancy within the same Azure region or different region. Watch Scott and…

Dave Campbell is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and long time database architect. Today, Dave works on the hardest problems
facing SQL's foray into the new world of cloud computing. His latest project in this space takes the form of SQL Azure. What is SQL Azure? What's the different with the…

WEI Share ("We Share") is a Coding4Fun code sample that takes your Windows
Experience Index score and shares it with the world (anonymously) to an Azure website with a Silverlight front end and lets you post your WEI score to Facebook for bragging rights.
Why would you want to share…

SQL PASS Summit 2013 is right around the corner and in today’s special IT Time episode, Blain Barton rounds up the usual suspects - Jennifer Moser, Lara Rubbelke, Chuck Heinzelman and SQL RockStar, Thomas LaRock – to discuss all things PASS Summit. Tune in as they chat about why you should attend…

In this special episode of Data Exposed, Scott welcomes to the show the three individuals who own the relational database at Microsoft; Shawn Bice (Partner Director SQL Relational Assets), Nigel Ellis (Distinguished Engineer SQL Database), and Rohan Kumar (Partner Director SQL RDBMS). In this…

PASS Summit 2014 is fast approaching and in today’s IT Time special, Blain Barton welcomes Jennifer Moser, Lara Rubbelke, Ann Bachrach and Thomas LaRock to the show as they discuss the big event. Get tuned in on all of this year’s major happenings, big announcements, sessions, networking and…

This month's live episode of SQL Unplugged has Shawn Bice, Nigel Ellis, and Rohan Kumar answering your questions on everything from SQL DB, G series Azure VMs, Sterling and more! It sure was fun to do this live and take your questions on air.…

Join Tim Huckaby, Founder of InterKnowlogy and Actus Interactive Software, and Kimberly Tripp, President/Founder of SQLskills.com, as they discuss why SQL Server and SQL Azure is important to Developers. Kimberly delves into SQL Server indexing as well as the good and bad of GUID. She also provides…